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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1918
Page
9
A surge of influenza cases prompts school closures social event cancellations and postponed sales through next Monday. Nationwide spread includes military camps with preventive measures at Winona Lake and ongoing daily reports of new cases.
The township received the honor flag last week for reaching the Liberty loan quote in one day. Chairman W. H. Kern accepted it and displayed the flag across Jefferson street. Lake township’s quota was over subscribed in one day, making the county the third in the state to go over the top.
Flerbert Hill received a five day furlough from Camp Custer Michigan to attend his brother Gus Hill's funeral and reports back Friday. Ralph Kreamer of Camp Devens Massachusetts arrived for ten days to visit relatives. Will Wedrick of Great Lakes Naval Training Station visited over the weekend and will return. Irvin Way of Camp Custer was granted a furlough after his mother's death and is spending time with family.
One thousand men from every county in Indiana arrived at Winona Lake on Tuesday October 15 to begin training at the new army camp. Buildings were altered to meet government demands and among the local group is Russell Kreamer from this place.
Official reports confirm a record forest fire in Minnesota has claimed more than 500 lives. The disaster ranks as the worst in state history, with search and rescue efforts ongoing amid widespread destruction.
Monroe Paulus received a Thursday forenoon message from his son Glen Paulus stationed at Camp Hancock Georgia. Glen reports he has earned a commission and is now a first lieutenant of the company.
Marion Minear son of Mr and Mrs Solomon Minear of Clappool died Sunday afternoon at 3 40 from Spanish influenza. He had been very unwell since Thursday and death was expected. He was fifteen years old and is survived by his father mother and three sisters.
Miss Opal Ramsey daughter of Mr and Mrs J A Ramsey and Russel Lukenphill were married Tuesday last in Paris Illinois. Ramsey worked as a clerk at the Big Four station in North Manchester and Lukenphill has been employed as an operator for the Pennsylvania lines in North Manchester and Logansport.
Last Friday at noon a report reached the tele phone office that Gus Hill had died in the hospital at the Valparaiso college military camp. He was the first local soldier to lose his life in the conflict. Gus left behind two brothers in service, Dean in France and Herbert at Camp Custer, plus a brother-in-law, Russell Shoemaker, also overseas. Earlier he had operated a garage for his brother and then went to Urbana with Silver Lake companions to begin military training.
The community mourns M Downing of Claypool who died at 42 after pneumonia from Spanish influenza. He ran a prominent funeral business with his brother in law Charles Tucker and was a longtime Odd Fellows and Royal Arch Mason. Funeral held in Claypool with burial in I O O F cemetery. The War Industries Board endorsed indefinite daylight saving time, arguing it aids war workers and saves coal. clocks would stay aligned with federal time if law passes.
The body of Clarence Montel 25 arrived in Claypool Monday after dying Friday night at Camp Sherman Ohio from pneumonia following influenza. He was the son of Mr and Mrs John Montel of Claypool. Surviving are a very ill wife in Ft Wayne Hospital with typhoid fever. Funeral held Tuesday afternoon at the Claypool home.
Mr and Mrs Carl Wood of Casey Illinois attended the funeral here last week for Gus Hill the brother of Mrs Wood. They stayed this week as M r Woods school is closed because of influenza.
Aged Seward township resident John Shireman was taken to the county infirmary Tuesday evening by Trustee Hill.
In a single day Bartholomew County Indiana raised its fourth Liberty loan quota by subscribing 111 percent of the $925000 target reaching $900000 without any solicitation of subscriptions.
Mrs. J W Way age 53 died at her home southwest of town Sunday evening after a long invalid period and a recent bout with Spanish influenza. Survived by her mother Mrs Sarah Fisher husband six sons Joseph Bert Irvin Eugene Harry and Kenneth and many relatives. Funeral Wednesday at 1 PM with burial in South Pleasant cemetery.
A call urges people to write to the boys in camps and overseas. A letter is said to do them worlds of good and lift morale during service.
Workmen began grading on the west side of the railroad north of the station to secure the right of way. The siding will be extended by about one thousand feet to become a better passing track.
Don Herold urges readers to embrace patriotic eating by making corn bread from corn meal not using 80-20 substitutes and to use extra corn meal for a ritualized, fervent consumption. He likens buying Liberty bonds to eating bread until the Kaiser is defeated, urging disciplined, fiery devotion.
T. A. Jontz visiting home from Camp Custer reports his son Russel recovering from pneumonia after Spanish influenza. Everett and Chester Jontz stayed to care for him, and Russel's condition is improving slowly as T. A. Jontz returns to camp.
The community notes Grant O Harris and George Bohnstedt, both graduates of the local high school, have entered military training. Harris was listed for Valparaiso, and Bohnstedt departed to Urbana Lil on Saturday September 28 for military school.
Word from the Valparaiso camp says Maynard Young, Russel Kerlin, and James Jontz were sick in hospital. Their fathers rushed to the camp. the boys were soon released and back on duty by Tuesday. Elweed Kerlin stayed a few days while H. G. Jantz and O. D. Young departed Tuesday afternoon.
Elsie Cook wed Charles W. Studt of St. Louis Sunday afternoon at two at her Warsaw home. Only immediate relatives attended. The bride, daughter of Mrs. Princess Cook, is grand daughter of Mrs. L. W. Myers. Studt is an oil geologist in Oklahoma and may be called for chemical warfare duty in Washington soon.
Clarence Hamman and family moved to Fort Wayne last Saturday and will make it their future home with Mr Hamman securing steady employment there.
Charles Brown received a letter from his son Orville in Camp Sherman Ohio reporting his father Orval Brown is recovering from Spanish influenza and able to be up. He expects to come home on a two week furlough as soon as he is pronounced fit for the trip by the captain.
Miss Inez Clinker of the Dorsey Clinker family near town receives a letter from her uncle George Lamar a wireless graph operator on the U S Ship Zeelandia. He writes of influenza fears aboard and news of a pending appointment that would make him a offices it wireless telegraphy earning over two thousand dollars yearly, after Lecy Daniels signs his appointment. Lamar has just returned from his sixth trip to France and has served nine years.
E W Gresso and Joseph Kerlin traveled to Urbana Illinois on Tuesday to visit Gordon Gresso and Delbert Kerlin who are in a military camp there and have been sick in the hospital. George Bohnstedt is also in the hospital there but is reported as much improved.
Grover Arnold detained by sickness for a month at Murphy home in town. He arrived from Camp Sherman and follows with an attack of pneumonia. He cannot return to camp today due to illness.
Mrs. A. A. Mahoney, aged, died at her home two miles from Palestine on Wednesday morning after about three years of dropsy and heart trouble. She was taken to Alexandria for treatment last Friday.
Incomplete OCR fragment notes boys teams and October dates with several names such as Clarence Li Priser and Roy. Details are unreadable but indicate a school sports roundup with likely football or basketball notes.
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